Singer John McLean informs us that "this is a lovely song about heartache and rejection, and all the things that will happen to you eventually". It is dedicated to the "...surly skinhead at the front...totally wasted on him...". The skinhead heckles back that was wasted on the singer too. The skinhead is Pat (Chaos Uk drummer) and 13 years later they team up to make more music totally wasted on people "..truffles for pigs..." says McLean. See The Bad Losers on youtube or at www.thebadlosers.com Meanwhile this song features local guitar/sax hero Mike crawford slipping his bottleneck up the fretboard. Bassist John Chilcott protests at the slow pace of this song by sitting down resting on his amps cab (or has he collapsed pissed?!). The other three members still play together today in The Bones, quoting from the Prom wine bar web site: "The Bones are one of the west country's treasures, one of the few bands that have maintained the feel and attitude that a rock band is supposed to have. They started out as young contenders 'Crazy Trains', knocking the stuffing out of all that went before them, with minimum line-up change they morphed into 'Crazy Bones', and for a time included Seers and Zuma front-man Spider and the ubiquitous Mike Crawford. Having matured into 'The Bones' and playing a mix of Stones type R'n'B, early American style garage and Flying Burritos style country rock, John McLean and co have by no means lost the swagger that inspired them to play in the first ...
Keywords: crazy, trains, bristol, 60s, garage, punk, bones, iainweir
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